Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team of loggers working to salvage what might be as much as $50 million worth of downed timber for Weyerhaeuser Co., gets $11.80 an hour, plus a $6-a-day hazardous-duty bonus. So does Norm Pettit, who came from Coos Bay, Ore., because "this is the only boom area in logging in the county." Jobs with cleanup and logging crews have attracted enough newcomers to push enrollment in the Toutle school district from a pre-eruption 502 children to a current...
...just a generation, the boom has gone bust. Haifa million auto-related jobs have been lost since 1979, and migration today is away from Motor City, not toward it. Turner, 29, has gone to Arizona to look for work: "That's what my father did when we moved up to Detroit." Youker, 28, an engineer with Chrysler's defense division, headed for Los Angeles and a higher-paying job with Hughes Aircraft. Jones' daughter, Anita Cousins, 41, has taken the path most traveled by departing Michiganders. She has followed the Lone Star beacon to the plenty...
...prime beneficiaries of the energy boom are the area's farmers. Neil Doornbos, 85, and his wife Alice, 81, retired from farming in 1954. Their land, though, is only a mile north of the site of last September's gas discovery, so a 17-story rig is now pushing a drilling bit deep into a cornfield 150 yds. beyond their back door. If the drillers strike it rich, so will Neil and Alice; the couple will get a one-sixteenth share of the production. -By Christopher Byron...
...assessing Miami of Ohio's kicking game, the team's adviser, Robert Graham, called their kicking game "consistent but not outstanding: our fullback never gets us into trouble but also does not boom the ball; and our kicker can hit very well from mid-range...
...railroads are counting on future profits from a boom in coal transport now that nations around the world are seeking a substitute for high-priced oil. But the U.S. will never fulfill its potential as a coal exporter until action is taken to upgrade and expand its ports...